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Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard (Making Fun of Obama is Racist, Impossible)
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| Richard Zoglin
Posted on 09/02/2009 11:06:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Let’s face it. Comedians know they will get slammed for going after Obama and nearly all of them are cowards at heart.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:10:14 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Sarah Palin will soon have more fans on Facebook than most major newspapers have readers.)
To: nickcarraway
They wish.
Hussein IS a joke...
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:11:04 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: nickcarraway
What do you get when you cross a pathological narcissist with a domineering radical?
Sasha and Malia.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:12:26 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Extreme right-winged mob terrorist astroturfing bitter clinging racist birther evilmongering wingnut)
To: nickcarraway
“But Obama, with his obvious smarts, low-key style and (most important) ability to catch the prevailing tone of irony and laugh at himself, has left the comics with little to hang their punch lines on.”
If he could laugh at himself, comedians wouldn’t be so worried being called racists!
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:12:32 AM PDT
by
MNDude
(The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
To: nickcarraway
Obama could never get away with the kind of sexual shenanigans that Clinton did, he mused, because Michelle wouldn't stand for it: "She would impeach him herself!"Soooooooooooo lame. Did anyone even laugh at that?
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:13:47 AM PDT
by
kevao
(DISSENT: It's no longer patriotic.)
To: nickcarraway
You couldn’t get away with jokes about Hitler in Germany, either.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:14:19 AM PDT
by
counterpunch
(In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
To: nickcarraway
Sorry but I stopped reading at this slop:
"What the heck were political comedians going to do? For eight years they had enjoyed a comedic gift from the gods in George W. Bush, whose bumbling presidency provided even richer material than the cartoonish excesses of the Clinton years. But Obama, with his obvious smarts, low-key style and..."
To: nickcarraway
“acting stupidly”
“I won”
“I am the President”
“flag@whitehouse.com“
“rising oceans stopped”
Add to those morsels his narcissist complex and megalomania, and there is a bottomless pit of ammo for humor. But most of the popular comedians today are commies too so why would they ridicule their master?
To: Antoninus
Let’s face it. Comedians know they will get slammed for going after Obama and nearly all of them are cowards at heart.
George Carlin once said that in order to survive high school you either had to be Fierce, Fast or Funny. So if someone is funny you can probably rule out the other two.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:15:22 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, FNC, 3AM ET to see exactly how Obama can be made fun of nightly.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:18:28 AM PDT
by
franklog
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:20:46 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: nickcarraway
There are mountains of material that could be used to make jokes about Obama. It's amazing to me that comedians just refuse to go there.
I've long maintained that the entertainment and news businesses are not about entertainment or news. They are just propaganda arms. Profits are not the point. Hearts and minds are the point.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:22:23 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
To: nickcarraway
...Time dances all around the elephant in the living room....you can’t poke fun at a black man in America....BUT....turn on BET and every standup comic there is ridiculing Whitey
To: nickcarraway
No need to be racist. Declare Obama to be white!!
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:26:58 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
To: OB1kNOb
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:27:01 AM PDT
by
NRA2BFree
(We knew a revolution was coming, but who knew it would be started by rowdy senior citizens! lol...)
To: nickcarraway
The best part of this is that they do not have to make jokes about “Mack Daddy the Zebra” because the entire world know that he already is a joke by himself.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:30:03 AM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: nickcarraway
If making jokes is bad because it’s somehow “racist”, then it’s just as “Racist” making jokes about a white president.
To: OB1kNOb
Normally, I wouldn’t think that your joke was funny, but gee whiz, that is extremely mild vis a vis statement about Palin’s kids.
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posted on
09/02/2009 11:32:08 AM PDT
by
mel
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